Daily Republican., 1887-08-01
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&10O Fine and 80 vays in Jaii-Bee6i
iu Z Fad Cendition-Eau OF aa Eleya
tor.
At Wilkssbarre, on Saturday, Thos.
U. Evans, 0f Nanticoks, n delegate 70
the Republican Convention last fall,
WAS sentenced by Judge Wood ward to
pay Sl00 fine, the cost OF the prosec o.
tion, and 30 days In jail, for attem pting
TO sell the votes OF seventy delegates for
$40 apiece to Arnold Bsrtels, one of the
candidates for Sheriff.
Charles H. Reed, one of the counsel
for GuiteAu, who is said to have at.
tempted suicide by jumping from q
ferry boat in New York on Saturday,
was 1n a precarious condition yester-
day. The physicians say bis cons.itu.
tion is undermined by excessive living,
and be also suffers from melsncholia.
A small elevator in the Bremen Tan.
hing Works, at St. Louis, into which
seven girls and . man were crowded +,
fell distance OF forty feet on Friday
night. Alexander NJ. Farrar, preside mt
OF the company, and Annie Moran,
aged Is years, were fatally injured, and
several others sustained dangerous In.
iuries.
W. q. Cremer, local editor Of the
Valley Spirit, at Chambersburg, Pa,
while sleeping in q ham mock in third
story veranda on Saturday night, fell
from 1t to the yard below. His fall was
broken by contact with grape arbor,
but he suffered eevere injuries, and was
unconscious nearly all day Sunday.
The steamer Glen Shield, from Yoko.
hama on May 3lst, with the first cargo
OF Nev crop Japanese tea, arrived ct
New York on Saturday. She sailed in
company with another steamer, the
monmouthshire, In race for New
York, and it Ia said ''lsrge sums of
money were placed on ths result"
Lightning strnck tank containing,
1t Is stated, 7C0 barrels of oil, on Sun.
day afternoon, at the works OF the At
lantic Refining Company, Point Breeze.
The oil burned five hours, but was pre-
vented from extending beyond the tank
In which the fire originated. The loes
is estimated at IS 0C0.
A deputy Sheriff named De Long was
shot dead and g. G. Bostick was fatally
wouna ed while attempting to arrest two
horse thieves named Cornelius apC
Charles franklin. who had escaped
from jail, near Phelps City, Miss On
Friday afternoon.
The barn Of farmer named Arnold +,
at Germantown, Wis WAS burned on
Friday afternoon, and his little son was
burned to death while hanging over the
lower half Of the barn door, the upper
half being open.
About 200 of the 'longshoremen who
struck at the National Line pier, at
New York, returned to work on Satur-
day morning az the Old rates. The
colored nUn-unioD men were discharged.
The strikers will be taken back as va.
cancies occur.
Captain John Ericsson, inventor of
the famous turret ironclad "Monitor,"
celebrated his 64th birthday at his
residence in New York yesterday. He
10 said to be "remarkhbly sound in both
physica and mental health"
The family of Amos Geigley, at
Terre Hill, Berks County. Peuna., were
not poisoned, as at first supposed. Mrs.
Geigley and the children have been
sick of typhoid fever, but are now re-
ported improving.
Consul General Phelan, at Halifax,
reports to the State Department that
the schooner Hodgkins, seizsd at Shell.
burne, has deposited the penalty OF
S400, and that "her offence Ia purely
Lechnical."
James Fenner, q bookkeeper OF the
International Grain aud Stock Ex-
change, ct Toronto, has been arrested
on charge OF embezzlement. 1t is al
legged that he is Sl0,0 900 short.
Two young ladies, Bessie Powers, of
Boston, and Anna Christian, of Pros
pect, Nova Scotia, were drowned on
Sunday near Halifax by the caps:ziDg
of sail boat.
Henry Jameson was killed near
Golden, Colorado, on Saturday morn
ing, by falling down the main shaft OF
the White Ash mine, o distance Of $40
feet.
Nina Goodwin, aged IA years, and
Albert Stevens, aged IL, were drowned
by the caps!zing OF boat near New.
burypor., Mass, on Friday night.
Mrs. Casharine Melville died In q
hospital in Providence on Saturday
from burrs received the day before
while fastening q slow sre with keIo.
sepe.
Oscar q. Sawyer, for nearly thirty
years connected with the New York
Herald, was sunstruck on Saturday and
died in a hospital Sunday night.
George Barnes, colored, charged with
homicide, was lynched by s.colorfd
mob at Green wood, Miss, on Friday
| night.
The public debt statement for July IL
expected to show a reduction OF about.